It's a nice-looking map. I like the color you chose for the water as it relates to the darkened paper edges.
You have a lighting problem, though. The settlement icons are shaded on the right, but the mountains and hills are shaded on the left.
It's a nice-looking map. I like the color you chose for the water as it relates to the darkened paper edges.
You have a lighting problem, though. The settlement icons are shaded on the right, but the mountains and hills are shaded on the left.
Bryan Ray, visual effects artist
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Oh! You are right about the light...I should correct that. Thanks!
What Midgardsormr said. I LOVE that you actually have trunks for your little tiny trees. It bugs me a bit when people do side view mountains and top down everything else. It's even better when you managed to get some nice ISO city/town icons on there also!Originally Posted by Midgardsormr
On a side note, not that it's horribly bad or anything, but it appears you have some repetition to your mountains. If you have the time, you may want to consider hand drawing all the mountains(there is a video tutorial link in the Tutorial section) or if you don't have time for that, quickly replace some of the few that are to close together. The three at the top of the Mountains of Fire range initially were what caught my eye.
Finally, does the swamp cover the entire north? I assume so by the green tint. If you want to make this stand out a bit more, you might want to try a bit of stippling. You can try this for inspiration http://www.cartographersguild.com/sh...1956#post21956 or not....
Very good work. And I love the premise.
Joe
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Nice style!
I kinda hate the font though. Really tough to read.
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I like it, clean and simple, except for that font. The font seems a bit fancy for this "handdrawn" map. maybe lose the glow or outline?
Yea, now that others point it out, it is a bit glaring and hard to read. I did not really pay much attention to that the first look.
Joe
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My Tutorials:
Explanation of Layer Masks in GIMP
How to create ISO Mountains in GIMP/PS using the Smudge tool
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That's really very pretty. Thanks for the link to the brushes as well. That's a great set of images.
I must agree with others. The map is beautiful except for the font. It makes the smaller type (like for Towns/Cities) very difficult to read. Example is the Town of Ghild, gild or something like that. Like I said, difficult to read.
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